Subject: Re: AdvanSys board support
To: Baldassare Profeta <Dante@mclink.it>
From: None <seebs@plethora.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/09/1998 16:30:55
In message <9806092305.aa12124@ax433.mclink.it>, Baldassare Profeta writes:
>I bought an AdvanSys PCI SCSI-U board.
>I know there is no support for this board right now, but I've got the
>source code (from the manufacturer) to let this board work under Linux.
>I'd like to see this board supported on NetBSD too.
>Is there anyone able and interested in porting the source code to NetBSD?
>I can give all the support I can in testing.
>
>Please let me know what do you think about it.
>It shouldn't be an hard work... I guess.
My understanding is that there's a FreeBSD driver, but it's in the
new SCSI access layer they have. I'll contribute a bit of money (not
much, I'm afraid) towards an effort to get the new FreeBSD access layer
supported, it sounds very good, and consistency between free software
is also a win.
-s